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derisive ADJ

derisive

give a derisive or insulting name to VB

Usage examples with derisive

give a derisive or insulting name to
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He doctored reports and wrote derisive comments on the margins of letters destined for the king.
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Often, the images combined several antisemitic motifs and included derisive prose or poetry.
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Fans will direct derisive chants at their rivals regardless of whether the teams are actually playing.
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Angered by the hosts' derisive comments about fanboys, she comes to the defense of her audience, immediately and unintentionally securing their obsessive adoration.
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The derisive term mystery meat is often used to describe offal which have been ground or otherwise heavily processed in order to obscure its origin.
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He was unusually good-looking, although his mouth was ascetic and cruel... there was a slightly derisive hauteur in the lift of his eyebrows...
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He posted the emails and replied point by point with derisive and humorous commentary.
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Though usually protective of his own work, he could be derisive of his pulp output.
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Further electronic searches suggest that the term became increasingly more common in the 1960s and always used in a derisive or humorous way.
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However, despite being the most widely used names for the genre, these terms are often criticized for pigeonholing artists into hipster subculture and are derisive.
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